摘要:
A system, apparatus and method for performing differential return loss measurements and other measurements as a function of frequency uses a digital storage oscilloscope (DSO) having spectral analysis functions. A waveform generator generates a differential test signal in the form of a series of pulses where each pulse includes spectral components associated with each of a plurality of frequencies of interest. A test fixture presents the differential test waveform to a load including at least one of a device under test (DUT), a short circuit, an open circuit and a balanced load. A signal acquisition device differentially measures the test waveform during each of the load conditions. The signal acquisition device computes an error correction parameter using measurements made during the short circuit, open circuit and balanced load conditions. The correction parameter tends to offset signal acquisition errors within measurements made during the DUT load condition.
摘要:
An apparatus and method for providing an end-user operator with the ability to assign temporary control of a set of one or more operator-specified instrument control operations to one, single-action switch on a signal measurement system front panel. The assigned instrument control operations are preferably represented by text strings in a macro text file that is developed and modified with the use of a text editor integrated into or operatively coupled with the signal measurement system.
摘要:
A system for providing input to a computer comprises a touchscreen apparatus for generating a grid of horizontal and vertical light beams and producing a set of output signals, each indicating whether a corresponding one of the light beams strikes an object. A scanning device repeatedly scans the states of the output signals, stores data representing the last scanned state of each output signal, and transmits a first interrupt signal to the computer whenever the state of any one of the output signals changes. In response to the interrupt signal, the computer reads the stored scan data, determines whether the data indicates that a horizontal and a vertical light beam is striking an object, and if so, sets parameter values to identify the horizontal and vertical light beams. In response to a second interrupt signal periodically generated by a clock, the computer determines whether or not the parameter values have remained constant for a predetermined period, and if so executes a routine responsive to the parameter values.
摘要:
A memory control for use with a digital oscilloscope having a display and a digital memory storing a sequence of signal samples. The sequence of signal samples is cyclically read from memory and displayed. The memory control adjusts the memory access operation to provide a controlled signal flow to the display at a rate within the slew-rate limits of the graphic display. In the memory control, the point slew, or distance over which the display beam moves from the present data point to the next point, is measured. If the point slew relative to the time interval between displayed signal samples exceeds the slew-rate capability of the display, the signal flow from the memory for subsequent data points is reduced or inhibited for a time sufficient to allow the display to reach a coordinate position corresponding to the desired data point.
摘要:
In an oscilloscope, a readout control circuit is adapted to create a horizontal cursor on an oscilloscope screen at a vertical level controlled by cursor level data generated by a microcomputer, and to cause the beam to form characters on the screen indicating a voltage represented by the vertical level of the cursor. Vertical offset and vertical gain parameters characterizing a vertical preamplifier system controlling display of a waveform are measured and utilized to determine the value of cursor level data needed to cause the readout control circuit to position the cursor on the screen to accurately reflect a selected voltage with respect to voltage magnitudes represented by points on the displayed waveform. The oscilloscope is adapted to measure peak magnitudes of a vertical preamplifier input signal, and the readout control circuit permits the oscilloscope to display a cursor on a screen at a level indicating the magnitude of the measured peak with respect to magnitudes represented by a displayed waveform.
摘要:
A raster display digital oscilloscope includes an analog to digital converter and a memory array for developing and storing a digital measurement signal amplitude-dependent on an acquired input signal. After processing stored digital signals are conveyed to an output circuit which includes a raster-scanned CRT and three display memory planes independently addressable by the CPU for receiving in discrete address locations the digital data. Corresponding address locations in the three planes are read in synchronism with the CRT scan to develop a display signal for application to the CRT to produce a display corresponding to the sum of the data stored in the three planes. The digital signals are automatically spread out or bunched up within the display planes to compensate for differences between the data acquisition rate and the scan rate.
摘要:
A cathode ray tube display device having beam deflection coils (8,10,12,14) and means (44 and 46) for applying to inductive means (58 plus the coils) which includes the beam deflection coils a voltage for causing a ramp current to flow in the coils to produce progressive beam deflection, comprising means (52,54,56) for selectively modifying interconnections between the coils to change the inductance presented to the voltage applying means and thus change the gradient of the ramp current and the rate of beam deflection, said interconnection modifying means being operable to change the number of deflection coils through which said current flows.
摘要:
A digitizer circuit for converting analog waveforms displayed upon a CRT screen into digital signals suitable for storage in memory employs a microprocessor to determine, from user-specified parameters, the times at which the output of the CRT vertical amplifier is to be sampled. The user has great flexibility in defining sample resolution and the location of the sample window on the displayed waveform in which the samples are to be taken and is permitted to intensify the sample window on the CRT display before any samples are taken in order to view the sample window in relation to the remainder of a displayed waveform.
摘要:
A timing analyzer incorporates pattern transition and pattern duration triggering. A transition detector detects transitions into or out of selected patterns occurring among the inputs of the analyzer. A time duration comparator compares a selected logical sense of the pattern against a variable duration reference. The outputs of the transition detector and of the time duration comparator are combined with logic circuits to produce a qualified trigger signal indicative of a simple transition into or out of a selected pattern, duration of the pattern longer than some reference, or shorter than that reference.
摘要:
A combined logic timing and state analyzer comprises an internally clocked, timing analyzer section receiving a first set of logic signals, and an externally clocked, state analyzer section receiving a second set of logic signals. The timing analyzer section samples the first set of logic signals, as well as the external clock signal associated with the second set of logic signals, at a rate determined by the internal clock pulses and stores the samples in a first set of memories. The state analyzer section samples the second set of logic signals at a rate determined by the external clock pulses and stores the samples in a second set of memories. Data introduction into the memories terminates when they are triggered, as in the event of a malfunction of the system being investigated. The logic analyzer further includes a display circuit for repetitively reading out the first and the second sets of memories and for causing a display device to visually present the output data of the first memory set in the form of a timing diagram and the output data of the second memory set in the form of a state table. The time relationship between the two display formats can be readily ascertained since the timing diagram includes a waveform, or other visual representations, indicative of the external clock pulses used for sampling the second set of logic signals.